Michael Gordon/The RepublicanLee Girls win first state title since 2003

For local sports guys like me, the track meet begins in September and ends in late March, and Saturday our annual pilgrimage to the DCU Center for the MIAA state championships began with the Lee girls and the New Leadership boys.

The Lee Wildcats defeated Pentucket 56-42 to claim their first state title since 2003. The New Leadership Wildcats ran head on into the best high school basketball team I've seen this year.

Wareham scored an impressive 80-57 win over our guys from Springfield, the Vikings were bigger, faster and in the end scored a lot more points than New Leadership.

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Also on championship Saturday the Sabis boys defeated Falmouth 83-52 to win the Division 2 state championship, and the East Longmeadow girls ended up falling to Andover 73-37 in the Division One state final.